Some NEWS is good NEWS! Can't wait!

It had been a while since I had gone to library. I do enjoy the at home research, the convenience I guess but getting out periodically is good. It gives you chance to gather new information and to get the opinions of others. So, I got to the library today and I guess I had the "I am lost look" on my face. When he, the librarian approached me he ask "if I needed some help?". I said yes, actually I do. I had stop researching the person I was initially researching and had started researching "Helen Womack". I am insistent upon on finding her birth. I researched her from the age of nine years old to her adult age. He got on the computer clicking through things and clicking through some more things. I was standing there looking like okay, what is he doing. Then I thought, he is professional. So, I stood there patiently. By the time he was done he had given me the possible news as to why I can't not find "Helen Womack's" Census before nine years of age which was "she may have listed as a male, Heland Womack". I had given up on looking up "Heland", it was like he (?) had fallen off of the face of the earth. So, lesson learned today. He, the librarian had even mentioned that "his Grandmother was listed as a male". I guess I am not surprised because of the education disadvantage our ancestors endured. If this is the case, I will be checking up on other family members. I can not wait until he contacts me. Getting this news will just about complete the life of Helen-Healon Womack Shars-Shears.

This is the Census that is in question. If it is her, she would have been 3 years of age.

In search of Healon/Helen Womack Shars Shears - The daughter of John Womack??

 

1910 Census - age 12 - Marshall, Harrison, Texas

 

abt. 1898

 

Healon Womack, age 12, daughter

 

F. John Womack, Alabama

 

M. Emma (?) Womack, Texas

 

listed as the daughter of John and Nellie

 

others in the home:

 

 

John Womack, 56, Alabama, Father

 

Emma (?) Womack, 50, Texas, Mother

 

(I also searched for Nellie 'Emma' Montague, no results found)

 

Ras, 14, Texas, Brother

 

Henry, 9, Texas, Brother

 

Octavia, 2, Texas, Sister

 

 

 

 

1920 Census - age 21 - Marshall, Harrison, Texas

 

abt. 1899

 

Helen Womack, age 21, daughter

 

F. Henry Womack, Texas

 

M. Gertrude (?) Womack, Texas

 

listed as the daughter of Henry and Gertrude

 

others in the home:

 

 

Henry Womack, 56, Texas, Father

 

Gertrude (?) Womack, 50, Texas, Mother

 

James, 15, Texas, Brother

 

Rube, 10, Texas, Brother

 

Gertie, 4, Texas, Sister

 

 

 

I did not  found any record of John Shears and Helen being married, though the death certificate states 'married' and her last name is 'Shars'.

 

 

I searched for the marriage record under John Shears/Shars name only.

 

I did not find any record of her having children. I searched using the above list of searches. When I search John Shears name is showed that he had children with someone else. 'Ardell Shears', John's son was the informant on Healon/Helen's death certificate. I am not sure why, John was still living.

 

City Directory confirm that they resided together at some point in the relationship.

 

 

 

...then there where City Directories that showed she may have been single in the beginning. The funny thing is, John's body was removed from Dallas to Marshall upon his death. Though one his son (Ardell) was born in Marshall, Harrison, Texas, I did not find any Censuses that showed him residing in Marshall, Texas.



The Beginning - Healon/Helen Womack Shars Shears - The daughter of John Womack??

 

As we all know that some of the slave and African American births were not documented if they child was a illegitimate (Blob ref# 139) or that was a slave birth (mulatto child). I searched and searched...and I found no birth records of Healon/Helen.

 

ancestry.com and familysearch.com, Blog ref# P2, C1 104 and 109

 



H*len Womack/Wom*

 

Hel* Womack/Wom*

H*len Wammack/Wamack, and other variations of 'Womack'

 

Hel* Wammack/Wamack, and other variations of 'Womack'

 

*elen, all variations of 'Womack'

 

*llen, all viairations of 'Womack'

 

Healon, all variations of 'Womack'

 

Helen, all viariations of 'Womack'

 

All variations of 'Helen' and all variations of 'Womack', together

 

Father search, with all variations of 'John Womack' and 'Henry Womack'

 

Mother search, with all variations of 'Emma' and 'Nellie Montague'

 

All variations of 'Womack', female, black/negro children b. abt. 1898 - 1900

 

...and all of the above searches in Marshall, Harrison, Texas and other County that the parents may have been born in.



 

Doodling and research...Healon/Helen Womack Shars Shears

Doodling and research...